Students are permitted to choose their secondary field from a wide range of possible areas offered outside the economics department. This outside field is not necessarily restricted to management topics (e.g., accounting, finance, or marketing), but can include such areas as agricultural economics, computer science, mathematics, political science, statistics or transportation. Students must, however, obtain formal approval of unusual field sequences from the Economics Policy Committee.

The 6 credit hour sequence for a field in Econometrics consists of three 2-credit advanced Econometrics course starting in the second semester of the second year . Most students seeking a field in Econometrics should plan on completing the Econometrics field courses during their third year.

Course requirements assigned to second year students may be different from those assigned to the third and fourth year students in a workshop to reflect differences in experience and course load.